From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mveety@gmail.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:29:30 -0400 Message-ID: <2452258.oMu2zgeCdk@as-laptop> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.4 (Linux/3.4.5-1-ARCH; KDE/4.8.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <0e3439c1-dcf2-49e8-bbd1-db0605edcc70@googlegroups.com> References: <1f5637de-024f-48d6-97c7-aba6cf870a7c@googlegroups.com> <0e3439c1-dcf2-49e8-bbd1-db0605edcc70@googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [9fans] Can't "mk CONF=9pcdisk" --> gives error Topicbox-Message-UUID: a495c21e-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Monday 23 July 2012 08:32:12 Kyle Laracey wrote: > On Thursday, July 19, 2012 1:48:06 PM UTC-4, John Floren wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:21 AM, erik quanstrom > > <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote: >> But as Federico mentioned, > > you might not want pcdisk--that's for >> running with a kfs > > root, which isn't officially supported any more. If >> you were > > looking at the 3e guide, that might explain it. These days, >> for > > a terminal, you probably want pcf (pc + fossil). > > > > > > for a terminal, ideally one would be booting off a file server, > > > and have no local storage. > > > > > > but local storage can't be avoided, > > > as i see it, on a standalone terminal, simple, speedy, safe > > > would trump fs features. so kfs can't just be excluded. > > > > > > your tradeoffs may vary. :-) > > > > > > - erik > > > > > > > There's certainly reasons for using kfs, but for a new user I'd > > probably recommend fossil simply because the documentation and most > > 9fans will assume you're using fossil. > > > > But yeah, *best* option is to netboot a 9pc kernel, it's lovely to > > just hit the power button when you're done working. > > > > > > John > > Wow so do you guys actually netbook Plan9? Where's the central > server? where you work / university or something? Or do you just > have it set up at your homes? Sounds pretty cool... My fs/auth server is at my house, and I netboot 9vx off of it when I need to get real work done. There used to be a server at RIT that you could do the same thing at, but it doesn't seem to be online anymore. -- Veety